"Just turned twenty," Xiao Yan casually made up an age.
"A twenty-year-old Soul Emperor?!" Yin Shu looked at Xiao Yan in disbelief. When he had been that age, he had only just broken through to level thirty.
Such talent was extremely rare even across the entire Soul Master world.
Liu Erlong's beautiful eyes also lit up with interest. Breaking through to Soul Emperor at twenty—even among the Upper Three Sects like the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, there were no Soul Masters with such terrifying talent.
"You look really young—nothing like a twenty-year-old," Liu Erlong said with growing curiosity. She casually took out a stick of incense from her soul tool and flicked it toward a tree at the entrance.
A spark flashed, and the incense ignited the moment it flew out.
Liu Erlong said, "As long as you can last one stick of incense under my hands, all your living expenses within the academy will be covered. You'll receive a salary of three thousand gold soul coins per month. If the students you teach achieve any results, there will be additional income."
"Three thousand gold soul coins?!" Yin Shu exclaimed involuntarily. That level of pay rivaled even the top instructors at the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.
Meanwhile, his own salary was only eight hundred gold soul coins.
The待遇 gap between ordinary Soul Masters and geniuses was enormous.
Yin Shu knew this was the academy's way of retaining talent and looked at Xiao Yan with deep envy.
He also knew the dean's strength very well. Looking at the tense standoff between the two, he said solemnly, "To last one stick of incense against the dean—a level seventy-nine Soul Saint—will likely require paying a serious price."
Ning Rongrong and Xiao Xue exchanged amused smiles. With Xiao Yan's strength, if he went all out, it would already be difficult for their dean to withstand even a single move.
Having just won two hundred thousand gold soul coins, Xiao Yan didn't particularly care about money.
What interested him was fighting Soul Masters.
After having Zhu Zhuqing and the other five girls retreat to the side, six soul rings slowly rose beneath Xiao Yan's feet.
"Xiao Yan, martial soul—"
"Enough with the fancy introductions. Let's start already. I'm Liu Erlong!" she snapped.
As her name was spoken, crimson light flared, and Liu Erlong instantly summoned her Fire Dragon martial soul.
"Cough, cough…" Xiao Yan couldn't help but cough lightly. Why did this woman have such a mouth?
Staring at her martial soul, Xiao Yan's gaze sharpened.
Not the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul? Was he overthinking it? Did Blue Tyrant Academy have no connection to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan?
"Flying Torrent of Furious Tides!"
As Xiao Yan brought his palms together, vast inner strength surged from within his body. He spread his arms, and crackling blue lightning erupted from his palms.
In an instant, his hands slammed together, forming a thunderous lightning sphere that shot forward with overwhelming power.
Seeing such a terrifying attack, Yin Shu hurriedly retreated several steps.
No soul skill?!
While Liu Erlong was shocked, her fifth soul ring lit up.
"Fifth Soul Skill—Soaring Flame!"
As the black soul ring glowed, Liu Erlong opened her mouth and spewed out searing dragon flames.
The flames swelled against the wind, forming a vortex before her, then transformed into a towering fire tornado that surged toward the lightning sphere.
Her fifth soul skill possessed both defensive and offensive capabilities.
When the two powerful attacks collided, a thunderous explosion erupted. Lightning and flames scattered wildly, scorching the surrounding grass to blackened ash.
"Impressive, kid. Seems I underestimated you. Sixth Soul Skill—Explosive Fire Dragon Rush!"
After praising him, Liu Erlong's sixth soul ring lit up. Under the deep black glow, dragon flames instantly wrapped around her right arm.
The blazing red flames gathered around her fist the moment they appeared.
"The dean is using her sixth soul skill!" Yin Shu hurriedly urged Ning Rongrong and the others to retreat farther away, explaining at the same time, "Once the dean releases her sixth soul skill, her speed increases drastically. She charges like a falling fire meteor, striking with a dragon-flame punch that carries burning and stunning effects."
As Liu Erlong streaked forward like a blazing meteor, dense scales appeared on her right arm, resembling Yu Tianheng's dragon arm.
The difference was that one carried lightning, while hers burned with flames.
Watching Liu Erlong rush toward him at high speed, Xiao Yan thought to himself: Wasn't this supposed to be a spar? Why does it feel like she's trying to kill me?
Twisting his body aside, Xiao Yan raised his hand and firmly grabbed Liu Erlong's dragon arm.
The devouring ability activated.
"Absorb!"
While shocked by Xiao Yan's strength, Liu Erlong suddenly realized that the flames on her arm were being devoured by him.
As the scorching fire-attribute soul power entered his body, Xiao Yan felt a wave of heat surge through him. Liu Erlong truly had some strength, and fire was an attribute he didn't possess—conversion was noticeably more difficult.
"Refine!"
Xiao Yan let out a low shout as the devoured soul power circulated through his Xuantian Art, transforming into his own inner strength.
Unlike ordinary Soul Masters' energy, this was power absorbed from a Soul Saint's sixth soul skill, and it differed distinctly from his own core inner strength.
Xiao Yan slammed his right palm toward the ground.
Boom!
The earth shook violently as his palm struck, countless fine cracks spreading across the ground, accompanied by visible scorching marks.
Looking at the shattered terrain, Xiao Yan thought to himself, It seems that aside from lightning, evil, darkness, and wind attributes, devouring other elemental energies still comes with resistance.
"I think there's no need to continue this fight," Xiao Yan said, releasing Liu Erlong's arm.
Staring at Xiao Yan's somewhat youthful face, Liu Erlong froze.
Though she wasn't some peerless prodigy, her strength in martial soul cultivation surpassed that of most male Soul Masters. This was the first time she had been defeated by a man—and such a young one at that.
Yin Shu was dumbfounded. "What kind of technique was that? He actually converted the attack power of the dean's sixth soul skill?"
Ning Rongrong and the other girls had never seen this method of Xiao Yan's before, but they knew it had to be some form of martial art.
After tidying her slightly disheveled hair, Liu Erlong asked curiously, "You didn't use any soul skills just now, so how were you able to display such power? And why couldn't I tell what your martial soul is?"
Xiao Yan replied, "I may be different from ordinary Soul Masters. I've always believed that a Soul Master should use soul power as the core, combine it with their martial soul, and refine their own body—using the body to drive the martial soul and unleash powerful techniques. I call these techniques 'martial arts,' and they allow one to surpass the strength of ordinary Soul Masters.
"The mainstream Soul Masters of the continent, relying purely on soul skills—no offense intended—are more like slaves to their martial souls. To advance, they must hunt soul beasts; to unleash power, they must activate soul skills. Without soul rings, relying on martial souls alone, most Soul Masters would see their strength drastically reduced—barely stronger than ordinary people."
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